Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell got up extra early to appear on the Friday edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe. On the panel, he discussed the Republican’s relentless "anybody-but-Romney campaign," the auto bailout and how Congressman Paul Ryan's budget plan could have disastrous effects for the GOP in the general election.
The Obama campaign just couldn't hold it in any longer.Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden pounced on all the nominees and started the framework arguments against a Republican in the Oval Office next year.
Lawrence chalked it up to running "out of patience." He said, "They just couldn’t sit around and wait for the nominee to emerge so they've started running that general election campaign now, which means Biden has to mention multiple names."
The Obama campaign wants to get a head-start on the party that hasn't picked their nominee yet. Lawrence predicted Team Obama will bring up the Ryan budget plan to end Medicare as we know it, which he said will "sink the Republican nominee."
"Mitt Romney embraced the Ryan plan, which is going to destroy him if he's the nominee in Florida, and that is where Biden is going next to talk about the Ryan plan," according to Lawrence. "They want you to know more and more and more about the Ryan plan; they want Paul Ryan to be as prominent as possible."
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Lawrence...you acclaimed Socialist, you ! First I want you to check out your Nielson Ratings...then ole buddy, ole pal I'm going to interpret them for you...What America wants....is ANY show on Fox News, and LESS of you ! Sorry guy....numbers don't lie....but if you need more proof you might consider the FACT....that I am the only post on this very blog !!!
It only goes to show that there are more idiots in America watching Fox news. If Fox news told me that the sky was blue, I'd check it out before believing it.
Leave it to a right wing radical to come on a blog just to try insulting the blogs commentater. Such idiotic hypocrits.
Karen. What it shows is that there are a lot more successful people in this country than the lefties want to admit. Most Americans don't want the government messing in their affairs and running their lives.
More people watch American Idol than Meet the Press.
More people read People magazine than read The New York Times.
So what's your point? Do you think higher ratings mean they're winning a war of ideas with shameless propaganda passing for news? Even so, you can fool some of the people all of the time... And looking at widespread reactions to the primaries, I have a feeling time is running out.
Personally, I think the blondes on Fox News are very pretty, and I like looking at them with the sound off.
Then why aren't you watching fox, instead of bothering and commenting? We love MSNBC, the most accurate in news you can get. Fox already was rated an entertainment channel only. They are now Faux News to those who want and expect accuracy. Did you watch the special report Maddow had today. Let's face it Americans who do not praise ignorance love MSNBC from Martin Bashir to Lawrence O'Donnell.
@Gerry Touche: You might be right there are a lot of successful people but not because they are GOP but because some have the correct definition of success. And those with it are not GOP. Obama is successful because the benevolence in his heart won over the greediness he could have.
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
â Brian Tracy
"If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it."
â Joyce Meyer
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
― Shirley Chisholm
jrt.....take your head out of your ass.
I'm wondering why FAUX folks are so strangely silent about goings-on in their news organizations in the UK...
Fox watchers are totally ignorant about what the last GOP president did and why is he a criminal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ
A lot of our young men and women died in that war while he joked about it.
Personally, I have never known anyone who has ever watched a Fox broadcast on anything ever. Maybe people who are asleep keep their TV on, or drunkards who have no idea what they are watching, or kids smoking pot have it on to confuse their parents, things like this. Just because people's TVs are on does not mean they are actually watching a show. I live all the way over in Italy and I watch Lawrence every morning, the day after, with my morning coffee and I enjoy every word. Keep up the great work Lawrence. This years has proven that the lunatics and name callers and deniers and Fox viewers are bat @!$%# crazy and it appears contagious, at least among their family members.
Most Fox viewers don't have an hour in the morning to watch TV. We're out in the world making things happen.
Most Fox viewers don't have an hour in the morning to watch TV. We're out in the world making things happen.
Torturing or killing Muslims, murdering fellow citizens with guns or by lethal injection, lobbying for gun tyranny, exploiting the poor, queer-bashing, race-baiting... Yeah, you Faux News viewers are really busy.
Has it occurred to you that W. F. Turtleheart could be retired or work afternoons and evenings? Such people exist, too.
@Dorothea: You are right: They are very busy bringing Lincoln prophesy to reality.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864
(letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Desmond Tutu
GerryTouche banned, multiple account of roscoejones, also banned.
Thank you Sally, you are doing a good job for us.
killing muslims, lethal injections, guns...........where's the down side??
OMG, you can't possibly be serious! Trampling on human rights and deeming it okay - a paragon of a right-winger. This self-centredness and self-righteousness are repulsive.
@Dorothea: Well you know the top 20% controls 93% and the GOP say that is because they worked hard at it. They are right.That is the GOP for me.
“The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.” P.G. Wodehouse
Trampling on animals that fly planes into buildings is my idea of fun.
WOW! You are a low rent propaganda sponge, bet you got a pile of teeth under your pillow too, if you believe the official BS about 9-11-01. Santa will bring you a million dollars for xmas, but you have to be on your roof naked xmas eve to get it, ok. Santa told me that, so you be there or be square.
@ GerryTouche:
Yeah, these evil terrorists. They attack other countries, kill people there and then celebrate these killings... Oh, wait! That's what the USA does.
Regarding the September 11 attacks: Yes, that was terrible. No doubt about it. However, the people who did this died together with the victims. Also, Bin Laden could and should have been arrested instead of being killed. You seem to believe that killing people is so wrong that the killers deserve to be killed. Don't you see how oxymoronic this thinking is? When you sink to the level of the wrongdoers, then you are not any better than them.
Bin Laden killed 3,000 innocent people in New York. That makes him an evil person. US soldiers, however, killed way more innocent people in Afghanistan and 150,000 innocent people in Iraq. That makes them ... heroes? Really?
Usually, when you kill someone, you are condemned and get to spend the rest of your life in prison. However, when you kill someone while wearing a military uniform, you are thanked for your "service" and get a parade (in the USA). What a f*cked up logic is that?
Katt I know that Bush/Cheney are responsible for 9/11...in fact everyone knows. I happened to be in NYC that day and saw W and Dick sneaking around lower Manhattan with a book of matches in their hands.
Dorothea from Germany
You're missing the point. I couldn't care less about what is right or just. I don't care about 150k dead Iraqis, they are the enemy, they are trying to kill Americans.. I care about what is best for my country. btw Iraq did have WMD...get out a history book...an American history book.
@ GerryTouche:
You're missing the point. I couldn't care less about what is right or just. [...] I care about what is best for my country.
Nope, I don't miss the point. As I said, right-wingers are self-centred and self-righteous. They seek vengeance, not justice. Totally pathetic.
I don't care about 150k dead Iraqis, they are the enemy, they are trying to kill Americans.
These people were innocent civilians!
btw Iraq did have WMD
If you believe that it's okay to start a preemptive war on a country because it owns WMD, then I assume you totally approve of the idea that the rest of the world declares war on the USA, invades your country, bombs your homes, kills your people. You know, to ensure that the USA will never ever use its nuclear weapons ... again. How I hate these double standards! A country that owns WMD itself has no right to complain that another country owns - or wants to own - WMD, too. Also, owning nuclear weapons doesn't mean that you are going to use them unless, of course, you are the USA. So, if you feel threatened by other countries' owning WMD, then that's probably because you project your own country's evilness onto them. In German, we have a proverb for that, "Was ich selber denk' und tu', das trau' ich auch den Anderen zu." This means something along the lines of, "If you have bad intentions yourself, then you suspect others of having bad intentions, too." or "Those who don't trust others, aren't trustworthy themselves."
There is no such thing as as innocent civilian in Iraq. They supported Saddam and they paid the price.
Yeah, right! All Iraqis supported Saddam, every single one of them. Do you seriously believe that? And even if they actually supported him, it would still be none of your business. Besides, you didn't answer my question. Do you support a preemptive war on the USA, because the USA owns nuclear weapons that could possibly be used to attack other countries?
The Iraqis that didn't support Saddam didn't overthrow him. They're just as guilty as those that supported him.
I live in the USA. Of course I don't support a preemptive attack. I do support a preemptive attack on Iran because I couldn't care less about Iran. The world would be better off without Iran.
We have a saying here in the USA!! "Hooray for me and screw everyone else"
The Iraqis that didn't support Saddam didn't overthrow him. They're just as guilty as those that supported him.
Yeah, right! Overthrowing a dictator? No problem at all! Wonder why the people in the USA and its predecessor took 300 years to end the oppression of black people? Things are much easier said than done.
I live in the USA. Of course I don't support a preemptive attack. I do support a preemptive attack on Iran because I couldn't care less about Iran.
Your double standard is so blatant that I can't figure out if you are serious or doing a parody. Is that you, Colbert? It's the same with Faux News and its slogan "fair and balanced". Either the channel has a total lack of self-awareness or a great sense of self-irony. There's just a fine line between insanity and genius.
We have a saying here in the USA!! "Hooray for me and screw everyone else"
I just googled it. Wow, this saying actually exists! Well, then you don't need to wonder why the world thinks so poorly of the USA ... to put it politely. Ironically your president said the following things just a few months ago:
"America is great not just because we're powerful, but also because we have a set of values that the world admires. We don't just think about what's good for us, but we're also thinking about what's good for the world. That's what makes us exceptional." (2011)
"We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes [= US troops who served in Iraq] has made the United States more respected around the world." (SOTU 2012)
I'd really like to know what drugs this guy takes, because he has such great hallucinations.
Yes...overthrow a dictator, or suffer the consequences. First of all our president is a clown, he's more of a German than an American. He's a bigtime Socialist. He'll be gone soon.
I'm just curious..Why didn't Germany liberate those wonderful Iraqi people?
Okay, I deduce from your comment that you are actually serious and not doing a parody. Creepy, creepy.
our president is a clown
Look, there's one thing that we have in common. We both can't stand Obama ... just for totally different reasons.
He's a bigtime Socialist.
Doesn't surprise me in the least that you believe that. However, Obama is not a socialist, not even remotely. Socialists don't support legal segregation, i.e. civil unions for same-sex couples and marriage for different-sex couples. Socialists don't support death penalty, wars and the military. Socialists don't support nuclear power. Socialists don't think that anyone who opposes the killing of people on principle "needs to have their head examined". In short, Obama is a f*cking right-winger.
Why didn't Germany liberate those wonderful Iraqi people?
What you call "liberation" was actually a mass murder and thus a mass violation of human rights. Most people over here don't believe in unsolicited military intervention. As long as a foreign nation doesn't explicitly ask us to militarily intervene, we won't meddle in their affairs by gunning down people.
Sorry honey....I'm a f*cking right-winger, not Obama.
I guess the USSR was run by a bunch of nice guys huh? Most people "over there" just want a warm place to get stoned.
Sorry honey
Oh, now we get affectionate...
I'm a f*cking right-winger, not Obama.
There are different degrees of right-wingness. Obvs you are at the far end and Obama is a bit more to the centre.
I guess the USSR was run by a bunch of nice guys huh?
Dictatorships are independent of political leanings. They can be left-wing or right-wing. Sometimes, left-wingers betray their own values. Sometimes, people falsely label themselves "socialists".
Most people "over there" just want a warm place to get stoned.
You speak in riddles.
@Gerry Touche: I think that what you mean is not what is best for our country. There were no WOMDs, in Iraq. Bush lied. And that was good? To send our young men and women to die just for a whim and to have the Military Industrial Complex have a fatter capital gains check each quarter. All those weapons we bought from the MIC and all the money came out of money we all paid in taxes and money that we had to borrow. Yeah, that is very good for the country. Go back to school and maybe go back to church and tell your pastor they did not teach you right.
JEEEEEEEEEEEEZ!!! Saddam killed 500k Iraqis with....all together now.....WMD. The UN told him 12 fckn times to show them where the WMD were. He said no, now he's dead. Didn't all your affirmative action programs teach you anything?
btw My capital gains checks come monthly .....it's the American way. Try it sometime, you'll like it.
We need a real healthcare system in this country, not a wealthcare system for the for profit insurance corporations. We need to make the corporate tax rate the same as it was in the 1940's. All of these faux christians can STFU about contraception and all of their other faux religious values unless they are also going to enforce the part about good stewardship of the planet, and reaping what they sow. All they want to do is pollute the planet and sow death and destruction around the world, that could be why the "bible belt" is hit by all the tornado's, drought, floods and fires, they are reaping what they have sown, this also applies to all the bankrupt banks and corporations too. They don't deserve any religious freedom until they have set free all their religious prisoners at GITMO and all the other secret gulags around the world, and ended all of their christian Taliban activities worldwide. They have become the very monster that they have said was so evil all these decades. This is why I gave up religion for lent. And they wonder why their Jesus doesn't want to come back. DUH!!!!
katt you're right. You can have any healthcare system that you're willing to pay for....don't send me the bill!!!
Lawrence keep up the good work. Put them in their place with the liars and the greedy.
If hard work pre-empts wealth: Do you think that waitresses, nurses, housekeepers, janitors, civil servants, domestic help, factory workers, teachers, designers, computer data entry worker, customer service reps, bank tellers, store clerks and so on would be on the bottom sharing only 7% of the wealth? And that is why President Obama is fighting to raise the minimum wage and to lower the taxes of the 80% and to raise the taxes of those who have benefited the most for the last 30 years from those detrimental policies.
The constitution was written by men, rules that were needed over 200 years ago. Now, we need new rules and tweaking those who are already in place.
"It means maybe that research lab on the cusp of a lifesaving discovery, or the company looking for skilled workers is going to do a little bit better, and we'll all do better as a consequence. It makes economic sense. But part of that belief comes from my faith in the idea that I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper; that as a country, we rise and fall together. I'm not an island. I'm not alone in my success. I succeed because others succeed with me." President Obama
"Stealing to eat ain't criminal—stealing to be rich is." Andrew Vachss, A Bomb Built in Hell
"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics." Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because “the greedy” cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.” (“the greedy” is a substitution, some presidents are not in power anymore, greed has taken his power away) Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Afro............just say it...you want a hand out.
Don't forget about us. just because there was a dog on the car roof! We know he would have done the same if it was a member of the feline persuasion. But no one seems to have focused on one important thing. Obviously with the entire family traveling in the SUV, on their way to Canada for a vacation, they must have had a ton of luggage with them...enough for 6 people on holiday. Why wasn't the luggage on the roof in a carrier and the dog in the car???